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Introducing Márta Mészáros Autobiography, Film, and Politics Early Life • Born 1931 in Budapest, Hungary • Emigrated to USSR in 1936 with painter mother and father, sculptor László Mészáros • Father arrested and imprisoned in 1938 purge • Mother died of typhoid • Returned to Hungary in 1946 • Studied film at Moscow’s Russian State Institute for Cinematography (VGIK) in mid 1950s, as no woman yet enrolled in Hungarian film school Image source: Film Reference Early Career • Assistant at Studio Budapest, producer of newsreels, 1954 • Directed documentaries at studios in both Hungary (1965-1956, 1959-1968) and Romania (1957-1959) • Joined Mafilm 4 Group film unit in 1966 • Begins directing fiction feature films in 1968 – The Girl (Eltávozott Image source: Zobacz Wiecej Foto Enh 2009 nap,1968) is first feature in Hungarian film history made by woman Partial Filmography • Riddance (1973) • Adoption (1975) • Just Like at Home (1978) • Diary for My Children (1982) • Diary for My Loves (1987) • Bye-Bye, Red Riding Hood (1988) • Diary for My Parents (1990) • Little Vilma: The Last Diary (1999) Still from Adoption. Image source: Senses of Cinema • The Unburied Man (2004) Tension with Western Feminist Film Theory • Mészáros resisting categorization of ―feminist,‖ despite films’ empathetic focus on female protagonists’ experience and point of view – "I tell banal, commonplace stories, and then in them the leads are women—I portray things from a woman's angle." – ―I don’t want to make speeches about women’s emancipation, because I’m not part of that movement, but [filmmaking by women] represents a different kind of sensitivity. If you interpret my films as strictly political, you see that I approach power relations differently from the way they are portrayed by male directors‖ (Portuges, Screen Memories, 9) • Views political and historical content and focus on individual lived experience as primary Political Context: Communism in Hungary • 1919: Brief communist revolution and Hungarian Soviet Republic under Béla Kun • 11/1919: Counterrevolutionary forces under command of Miklós Horthy seize control of government • 1920: Horthy becomes Regent and Head of State (until 1944) Political Context, Cont’d • 1945: Provisional government (American/Soviet/British) • 11/1945: Elections, with independent Smallholders Party dominating • 1947-1948: Hungarian Communist Party gaining control of government (Mátyás Rákosi head of party) • 1948: Social Democratic Party merges with Hungarian Communist Party to become Hungarian Worker’s Party Political Context, Cont’d • Rákosi purging intellectuals and other critics (2,000 executed, 100,000 imprisoned 1948- 56) • Rákosi replaced as Prime Minister by Imre Nagy in 1953 Image source: History Learning Site Political Context, Cont’d • Nagy instituting political and cultural reform; removed as Prime Minister in 1955 • 1956: Nagy reinstated as PM • 1956: Uprising against government and Soviet suppression of uprising Image source: BBC News • 1958: Nagy executed on charges of treason Class Questions: Additional Resources • Communism, Nazism and Fascism – Professor Brad DeLong’s ―Alternatives to Capitalism and Democracy‖ page outlines the major tenets and compares Nazism and Fascism • Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia, 1943- 1980 – Professor Charles Evans provides background on Tito’s break with Stalin and links to articles on the split, like this one from a 1949 issue of TIME • Hungarian political history, post uprising – PBS has a succinct timeline.

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